1976 United States presidential election in New Mexico

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1976 United States presidential election in New Mexico
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  1972 November 2, 1976 1980  
  Gerald Ford presidential portrait (cropped 2).jpg Jimmy Carter 1977 cropped.jpg
Nominee Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Michigan Georgia
Running mate Bob Dole Walter Mondale
Electoral vote40
Popular vote211,419201,148
Percentage50.75%48.28%

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County Results

President before election

Gerald Ford
Republican

Elected President

Jimmy Carter
Democratic

The 1976 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 2, 1976. All fifty states and The District of Columbia were part of the 1976 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Contents

New Mexico was won by President Gerald Ford by a 2-point lead. A very partisan election in New Mexico, only one percent of the electorate voted for third-party candidates. [1] While Ford took the State of New Mexico, and much of the American Southwest and Midwest, Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter won the electoral college with 297 votes, and was elected president.

A reliable bellwether state in presidential elections up to this point, this was the first election since gaining statehood that New Mexico did not back the winning presidential candidate, and the first time New Mexico did not back the national popular-vote winner until 2024 (in 2000 and 2016, it voted for the candidate who won the popular vote but not the electoral vote). As of the 2020 presidential election , this is the last election in which Torrance County and Quay County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. [2]

Results

1976 United States presidential election in New Mexico
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Republican
211,419 50.75% −10.30
Democratic 201,14848.28%+11.72
Socialist Workers 2,4620.59%+0.47
Libertarian 1,1100.27%N/A
Socialist 2400.06%N/A
Prohibition 2110.05%N/A
Total votes416,590 100.00%
Republican win

Results by county

CountyGerald Ford
Republican
Jimmy Carter
Democratic
Various candidates
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %
Bernalillo 76,61453.98%63,94945.06%1,3630.96%12,6658.92%141,926
Catron 60253.18%51745.67%131.15%857.51%1,132
Chaves 10,63159.26%7,13939.79%1700.95%3,49219.47%17,940
Colfax 2,25945.13%2,71854.29%290.58%-459-9.16%5,006
Curry 6,23254.87%5,00444.06%1221.07%1,22810.81%11,358
De Baca 55647.93%59751.47%70.60%-41-3.54%1,160
Dona Ana 13,88853.09%12,03646.01%2330.90%1,8527.08%26,157
Eddy 7,69845.59%9,07353.73%1150.68%-1,375-8.14%16,886
Grant 4,09543.90%5,17655.49%570.61%-1,081-11.59%9,328
Guadalupe 1,04742.68%1,37956.22%271.10%-332-13.54%2,453
Harding 38757.08%28542.04%60.88%10215.04%678
Hidalgo 89148.56%93851.12%60.32%-47-2.56%1,835
Lea 8,77356.82%6,53342.31%1350.87%2,24014.51%15,441
Lincoln 2,32061.64%1,41537.59%290.77%90524.05%3,764
Los Alamos 5,38364.43%2,89034.59%820.98%2,49329.84%8,355
Luna 2,96650.25%2,87248.65%651.10%941.60%5,903
McKinley 4,61739.83%6,85659.14%1201.03%-2,239-19.31%11,593
Mora 90438.29%1,43860.91%190.80%-534-22.62%2,361
Otero 5,91452.10%5,33346.98%1050.92%5815.12%11,352
Quay 2,05949.08%2,09549.94%410.98%-36-0.86%4,195
Rio Arriba 3,21330.75%7,12568.19%1111.06%-3,912-37.44%10,449
Roosevelt 3,26950.85%3,11148.39%490.76%1582.46%6,429
San Juan 10,85255.13%8,61543.77%2161.10%2,23711.36%19,683
San Miguel 3,16237.17%5,20461.17%1411.66%-2,042-24.00%8,507
Sandoval 4,11044.34%5,07254.72%870.94%-962-10.38%9,269
Santa Fe 11,57644.53%14,12754.34%2941.13%-2,551-9.81%25,997
Sierra 1,66551.04%1,56447.95%331.01%1013.09%3,262
Socorro 2,26545.86%2,60652.76%681.38%-341-6.90%4,939
Taos 3,01240.07%4,41458.72%911.21%-1,402-18.65%7,517
Torrance 1,46248.54%1,52650.66%240.80%-64-2.12%3,012
Union 1,14653.30%97545.35%291.35%1717.95%2,150
Valencia 7,85147.43%8,56651.75%1360.82%-715-4.32%16,553
Totals211,41950.75%201,14848.28%4,0230.97%10,2712.47%416,590

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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References

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